How to add line breaks in RSS feeds?

Question

I\'m building my own custom RSS feed in PHP. I want the tag to contain line breaks to make the text more readable. However, I can\'t seem to figure out how to do it correct

Answer 1

The RSS specification states that yes, you can use HTML in a description, but of course it needs to be properly escaped because it is embedded in XML. So using a
is the right idea, but you need to encode it using either of these methods, take your pick:

first line<br>second line

second line]]>